Advertising Outside Traffic Exchanges

Does it even exist? =P LOL of course! I’ve been thinking of different ways to advertise StartXchange to non traffic exchange members. Search and Safelists come to mind, what do you think? It’s the age old question, but when you provide traffic the pressure is on to bring in more and more new people every [...]

The Results You’ve Been Waiting For

Well I waited longer than I said I wait to publish the results of my multi-variate testing. And the results are going to SHOCK AND AWE you. The results were..

Not much.. The only thing that had some decent improvements was not having my photo on the page. Go figure. The thing to note is the [...]

You’ll be Suspended If..

I regularly suspend accounts every day for doing this, and it’s for doing something that many people believe is OK, and that nobody knows they are doing it. Unfortunately for them, it means they are permanently banned at StartXchange, and I do know they are doing it!
What is it I’m talking about? Making spam complaints! [...]

Just my luck

Well this is interesting. Of course I’m affected by it. Essentially this could have drastic results on the squeeze page, and it could be the reason results were so dismal. I’m not sure, but it’ll be interesting to see if this week’s results are way higher. It would make sense, if the incorrect code messed [...]

Let’s Change This Splash Page

Ok so obviously that splash page wasn’t working. Is it time/branding, or is it the copy? I created 8 variations of the splash page using some advanced scripting and tracking, and I’m going to see the results. At the same time I’ll still be testing which exchanges are bringing home the bacon. On Monday I’ll [...]

My Results This Week

I took the Top 10 Exchanges, assigned as much traffic as I could, and tracked the number of new subscribers to this splash page. I’m not including the number of pages viewed because my goal is to get the most subscribers possible, not the best return for the hits. What I did is tried to [...]